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exactly Lo'oris Send a noteboard - 19/05/2011 08:06:43 AM
A system that relies on both leaders being competent. In a system where the defining criteria for achieving that position is that your parents were the previous rulers, or that you married the current ruler. Nothing in that system encourages competence at all.

And what happens if these two supreme but equally powerful authorities disagree? Paralysis on the Blightborder?


exactly.

In a country with a single monarch, if he's incompetent you risk going into chaos... if you have two monarchs who disagree strongly (and don't tell me it will never happen) you have a very bad civil war.
And this is just one random example on why this is a very stupid idea.
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Io iudico bene questo: che sia meglio essere impetuoso che respettivo, perché la fortuna è donna ed è necessario, volendola tenere sotto, batterla e urtarla.
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